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...second half of the season, the orchestra has added two more to swell its record membership to 82. Joseph Cacciati '54 played bass violin for two years with the National Symphony of Washington under Hans Kindler. Another pupil of Richard Burgin, Barbara Sorenson '52 enlarges the violin section...
Died. Hans Kindler, 56, Netherlands-born founder and longtime conductor of Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra; after a stomach operation; in Watch Hill, R.I. Cellist Kindler founded the first orchestra in the Nation's capital during the depression (1931) after seven attempts by others had failed, entranced music lovers by conducting in sport jacket and shirtsleeves, finally resigned last December in a dispute with the orchestra's backers...
This week in Constitution Hall, Hans Kindler will conduct his farewell concert. When it is over, he will be off to Scandinavia, "teeming with ideas, as usual," he said. As far as he was concerned, the fate of Washington's orchestra was "in the lap of the gods...
...year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...
...trumpeter, was persuaded at 15 to switch to cello by the high-school orchestra instructor back in Sioux City, Iowa. Six months later, he had won a statewide cello contest. After scholarships at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra in the U.S. (among 25 with budgets of $100,000 or more) with an American-born...